Arctoconopa melampodia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Limoniidae
- Genus: Arctoconopa
- Species: Arctoconopa melampodia
Visual Description
Arctoconopa melampodia is a small, slender fly characteristic of the family Limoniidae. Observations of specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal a body with a delicate, elongated structure typical of crane flies. The wings are often marked with distinct, darker patterns or spots, and the legs are long and thin, facilitating movement in its habitat.[1]
Distribution and Records
Arctoconopa melampodia (Loew, 1873) was originally described by H. Loew.[2] The species has been documented in various regions, including records from the Sündiken Mountains in Eskişehir, Turkey, where it was collected during a survey conducted between June 2013 and May 2014.[3]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Limoniidae / Arctoconopa / melampodia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Arctoconopa melampodia (Loew, 1873). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1520928. Accessed 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Seda Bilgin; Okan Özgül; Hasan Koç. Türkiye için beş yeni kayıt ile Sündiken Dağları (Eskişehir) Limoniidae (Diptera) faunasına katkılar. Türkiye Entomoloji Bülteni. 2015. https://doi.org/10.16969/teb.29755.